Improvement in bottles



No. 29,563. PATENTED AUG. 14, 1860.

J. N BODINE.

BOTTLE. v

THE Noam: PETERS co. PNOYQJJTHO WASNINGTON. n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT Orrien.

J. .connvn, on-nnrnenrox, NEW Jnnsnv.

lMPROVEMENT IN BOTTLES.

To '[LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that T, J. N. BODIXE, of Bridgeton, county of Cumberland, State of New 'Jersoy, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottles, of which the following is a full, cleanandexact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a bottle embracing my improvements. Fig. 2 represents a plan of the top of the neck; and Fig; 3 represents a perspective view of the upper part of the bottle, with a portion of the neck removed.

My improvement in bottles is more espe-' eially adapted to those used for liquids highly impregnated with gases, which, when bottled, exert a powerful force on the cork and tend to throw it out of the neck of the bottle, which strap in order to retain it in the bottle. I

Among other modes proposed to retain the cork in bottles-used for bottling these liquids is to form two vertical grooves on the interior of the neck, opposite each other, and leading into a curved recess a short distance below the top of the neck, extending entirely around the interior of the neck of the bottle. 'With the bottle thus made a metallic stopper only is used, the lower end of which (that part extending below the curved recess) is surrounded with cork or some elastic packing to make the stopper tight in the bottle, and the upper part provided with two projecting ears or wings,

which enter the side grooves when the stopper is driven into the bottle and pass to the curved recess below.. The stopper is then turned so that these wings pass to one side ofthe groove and enter the curved recess, which prevents the cork from beingibrced out by the pressure of the fluid within. The objection to bottles thus constructedis that they can only be used with this peculiar description of stopper, as

the ordinary cork, when driven into the neck of this bottle, is caused by the pressure of the liquid to expand and fill the horizontal groove, which renders it diiiicult to withdraw without breaking, so that the same cork can rarely be used more than once. The object of my improvement is to remedy this defect, and so construct the bottle-that an ordinary cork may be used and held securely the bottle, and on opposite sides, vertical 1 grooves in connection with horizontal grooves extending laterally on either side from the bottom of the vertical grooves, for the -pur-.

pose of receiving a small independent block or wedge of wood or other material, which, after the bottle is corked, is driven into the vertical groove and slid around into the horizont'al, and thus prevents the cork from being forced out. by the pressure of theliqu-id within.

In the accompanying drawings is represented a bottle embracing my improvements, which is made "in any of the well-known forms in common use. The neckof the bottle is blown with a vertical groove, a, on the interior, extending from the top down a short distance, renders it necessary to confine the cork by means of cords, wire, or some description of and leading from the bottom of this groove, either tothc right or left, is a narrow groove,

b, which may extend, if thought-best, entirel-v around the neck.- The mouth of the bottle is closed with an ordinary cork, A, which, after being driven into the bottle, is confined by small plugs or wedges c of wood or other ma terial, whose thieknessris little greater than the depth of the groove. This plug is driven into the vertical groove to itsbottom-and alongside of the cork, and then turned into the horizontal groove, and ,is' retained in place by the elasticity of the cork and the pressure of the gas or liquid in the bottle upon the cork,

. which causes it to recede an (1 brings the wedge tightlyagainst the upper wall of the groove, and-thus prevents the cork from being forced out by the pressure of the liquid. In opening the bottle this wedge is drawn back by an instrument made for that purpose until opposite the vertical groove, when the cork flies easily by the pressure of the gas, or may be Wltlb drawn, if necessary, in the usual manner with out injury.

The advantages of this construction of hot tle and mode for retaining the cork in the bottle are that the cork is fastened with much greater i'aeility than by the devices heretofore used that this -fastening is much less cxpen sive; that the cork flies readily on drawing back the plugs opposite the vertical grooves,

and also that the cork is uninj ured' by this fastening and may be used several times.

It will be seen from the small dimensions of the horizontal grooves, and from thcir being almost filled by the fastening-wedge, that there is little or no cavity left in which the cork expands, preventing its withd rawal with case, its is the case with thosebottles made with the large curved recess below the vertical groove.

-Having thus described my improvement in bottles and in themode of fastening the cork,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isy 1, A bottle constructed with vertical and short horizontal grooves on the interior of the neck, substantially as described, for the purpose set forth.

2. The method of fastening the cork in the bottle by means of vertical and-horizontal grooves, in combination with an independent plug or block.

'In testimony whereof I have subscribed my;

name.

, ,J. N. BODINE; XVitness'es:

. GEo. F. NIXON,

A. E. HUGHEs; 

